From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966329AbXDDG6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:58:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966327AbXDDG6o (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:58:44 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:38409 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966352AbXDDG6n (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Apr 2007 02:58:43 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17939.19585.475192.767243@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:58:09 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: David Woodhouse Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop pmac_zilog from abusing 8250's device numbers. In-Reply-To: <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> References: <1175610345.2665.15.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <17938.57292.870224.132415@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <1175642916.10567.24.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Woodhouse writes: > A GUI PPP dialer should be > listing the available serial ports in the system whatever their names > are. How do you propose they do that? Neither kppp nor gnome-ppp seem to be able to do that currently. Gnome-ppp offers just /dev/modem and /dev/ttyS[0123]. Kppp offers those plus a whole pile of others, but neither found the /dev/ttyPZ[01] that I get with your patch applied. Gnome-ppp at least let me type in /dev/ttyPZ0, but kppp didn't seem to have that facility. > And nobody _forces_ you to use the name ttyPZ0. If you really want, you > can call it ttyS0.... just mknod /dev/ttyS0 204 192 Sure I can do that, but that's beyond a non-technical user, who is precisely the person who won't know (and shouldn't have to know) that their computer has an 85C30 chip rather than a 16C550, or even what those numbers refer to. Paul.